Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
...Stanford in 1925 a movement was begun that in a way makes amends for the cut and dried aspect of the lock-step system. Under the title, The Independent Study Plan, a means is offered whereby the student may use his own initiative in his university work. The plan is open to students of exceptional qualifications at the beginning of their junior or senior years...
...Stanford's Independent Study Plan endeavors to give certain latitude to the student and at the same time put definite checks on him that will make him direct his studies and get something from them. Stanford Daily...
...Stanford had a 14-man team. Twelve qualified, two twice. Though Easterners won ten individual titles to the Westerners' five, with one triple tie, eleven of Stanford's twelve qualifiers scored points in the finals...
...captain, Phil Edwards, a wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder...